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7 article(s) for January 2016

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies. Scientists say the galaxy clusters we see today have resulted from fluctuations in the density of matter in the early universe. Credits: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/Yale/CNRS
Dark matter …

Artist’s impression depicting a wind flowing from around a supermassive black hole at the centre of a bright spiral galaxy. Image credit: ESA.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) space telescope has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of …

One dozen (out of 18) flight mirror segments that make up the primary mirror on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been installed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Note technician in white coveralls in the lower right of photograph. Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
One dozen flight mirror…

This high-resolution image captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.
New Horizons flies by PlutoNASA's New Horizons gave Pluto its first close-up. The spacecraft flew within 7,800 miles (12,550 kilometers) of Pluto's surface, capturing spectacular images of towering water-ice mountains and flow…

The new Jason-2 image shows that the amount of extra-warm surface water from the current El Niño (depicted in red and white shades) has continuously increased, especially in the eastern Pacific within 10 degrees latitude north and south of the equator. In the western Pacific, the area of low sea l…

January Sky Calendar (pdf) Highlights this month's sky phenomena and celestial happenings with local dates and times (Mountain time zone). Free sky maps are available at www.skymaps.com.Skymaps.com produces a nice sky chart to help in locating observable celestial objects. Maps for the month ahead …